OK, I'm stumped on this one: dstep, struct, mixin, bitfields

[Russel Winder]

On Wed, 2018-03-21 at 18:11 +0000, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-
learn wrote:
> On Wednesday, 21 March 2018 at 18:00:38 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> >         ubyte, "version", 5,
> 
> 
> version is a D keyword, so I would suggest trying "version_" 
> there instead and see if it works. (I'm guessing btw, the error 
> message was way to long and illegible, but this is an easy first 
> guess anyway)

On Wed, 2018-03-21 at 11:14 -0700, Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
[…]
> 
> I think it's because 'version' is a D keyword. :)
> 
> Ali
> 

Thanks to Adam and Ali, it was clear and obvious. 

But :-(

Why does version have to be a keyword?

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